... the power of the state, and that legislation required a kind of `qualified majority voting', or as Penn put it, the support of 75 per cent of the delegates. These broad sketches of ideas from some of the progenitors of liberal thinking in international relations show how, from Penn's plans for a `Diet' in 1693 to the Treaty on European Union in 1992, there are common themes underlying Liberalism; in this instance, the theme is the importance of submitting the ... , and liberal institutionalism. . Liberal internationalism Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham were two of the leading liberal in...

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